Approaching Teaching as a Complex Emotional Experience: The Teacher Professional Development Stages Revisited

Along the evolving teaching journey, teachers experience a series of events that allow them to transition from novice to expert. Throughout the years, such transition has been the object of theories and debates about how this process is carried out, and when it is that teachers move from one stage t...

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Published in:PROFILE issues in teachers' professional development 2021-07, Vol.23 (2), p.231-242
Main Authors: Villegas-Torres, Perla, Lengeling, M. Martha
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
agency
EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Emotions
English teachers
identity
Occupations
Second language teachers
Socialization
Teacher education
teacher professional development
Teachers
Teaching
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Summary:Along the evolving teaching journey, teachers experience a series of events that allow them to transition from novice to expert. Throughout the years, such transition has been the object of theories and debates about how this process is carried out, and when it is that teachers move from one stage to the other. This article presents a study of a Mexican teacher of English and examines the professional-developmental stages based on Huberman’s (1993) career cycle model. Its aim is to understand the challenges and decisions a teacher may encounter in her or his career. The article shows the realities a teacher faces by exploring the concepts of emotions, identity, socialization, and agency. Moreover, it questions the belief that teachers achieve expertise through accumulating years of practice.
ISSN:1657-0790
2256-5760
1657-0790
DOI:10.15446/profile.v23n2.89181